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South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association

Former American intercollegiate athletic conference

Field	Value
name	South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association
founded	1912
dissolved	1921
association	NCAA
region	Atlantic Coast
Tidewater

Tidewater The South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SAIAA) was an intercollegiate athletic conference with its main focus of promoting track and arranging track meets. Its member schools were located in the states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, as well as the District of Columbia.

The conference's membership was centered in the South Atlantic region of the United States, which remains in the Southern United States and on the coast of the Atlantic, but is above and contrasted with the Deep South (which had the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association). It is sometimes known as the Tidewater region. Several of its members are today in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The SAIAA was first formed in 1912 and remained active until 1921. The conference disbanded in 1921, and six of its schools became founding members of the Southern Conference along with eight other schools from the southeast United States. Those six SAIAA schools were: North Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Maryland and Washington and Lee.

Membership

The following universities were members of the SAIAA at some point during its existence. Where known, the school's name is followed by the period of its membership in the conference. Italicized years indicate a confirmed year of membership, but may not be exhaustive. Track meets were held in 1911, and 1912 was the first season of play for all sports.

Catholic 1916–1921
Davidson 1916–1921
George Washington 1916–1921
Georgetown 1911–1921
Johns Hopkins 1911–1921
Maryland 1916–1921
North Carolina 1911–1921
North Carolina State 1911–1921
Richmond 1911–1921
St. John's (MD) 1921
Trinity College 1916–1921
Virginia 1911–1921
Virginia Polytechnic Institute 1911–1921
Virginia Military Institute 1916–1921
Washington and Lee 1911–1921
William & Mary 1916–1921

Name	Years
J. T. England	1912
J. W. H. Pollard	1915–1919

Football champions

There is no evidence in exhaustive searches of newspaper archives that the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association ever sanctioned college football. The list of champions has been derived from compiling football records of schools that belonged to the association that sponsored track and field events. The terminology "South Atlantic" was used generically by various publications to describe teams in the Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia and North Carolina area.

Year	url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222151731/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/conference_champs/champions.php?conid=171	date=2015-02-22 }},College Football Data Warehouse
1912	Georgetown
1913	North Carolina A&M
1914	Washington and Lee & Virginia
1915	Georgetown, Virginia, & Washington and Lee
1916	VPI
1917	Georgetown
1918	VPI
1919	Georgetown
1920	VMI
1921	Washington and Lee

References

[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1912-02-11/ed-1/seq-57/ Athletes' Meeting - South Atlantic Intercollegiate Athletic Association Formed] [D.C.] ''Evening Star'', 1912-02-11 Part 5 pg 3
Roger Saylor, [http://www.la84foundation.org/SportsLibrary/CFHSN/CFHSNv06/CFHSNv06n4c.pdf Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association] (PDF), College Football Historical Society, [[LA84 Foundation. The LA84 Foundation]], retrieved March 14, 2009.
Association, National Collegiate Athletic. (1912). "Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention ...".
(May 27, 1912). "England Selects Southern Outfit". The Charlotte News.
(May 5, 1912). "First Field Meet". Asheville Citizen-Times.
(February 20, 1912). "South Atlantic Colleges to Organize". The Daily Tar Heel.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=EjYKAAAAIAAJ&q=%22South+Atlantic+Intercollegiate%22+OR+%22South-Atlantic+Intercollegiate%22 Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association], 1921, p. 114
National Collegiate Athletic Association. (1922). "Official Collegiate Track and Field Guide".
[[Kemp Plummer Battle]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=1aO2AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22South+Atlantic+Intercollegiate%22+OR+%22South-Atlantic+Intercollegiate%22&pg=PA759 History of the University of North Carolina], Page 20.
(1913-01-01). "American Physical Education Review". Committee on Publication and Information of the Council of the A.A.A.P.E..
[https://www.nytimes.com/1913/05/04/archives/college-track-records-four-new-south-atlantic-figures-made-at.html COLLEGE TRACK RECORDS.; Four New South Atlantic Figures Made at Baltimore Meet], ''The New York Times'', May 4, 1913.
link. (2015-02-22 ,''College Football Data Warehouse'')
(15 September 2016). "100 Things Virginia Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die". Triumph Books.

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